Section 2332b of Title 18, U.S.C., effective April 24, 1996,
was enacted
as part of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of
1996, Pub. L.
104-132, § 702, 110 Stat. 1214, 1291. Section 2332b is intended
to reach
violent international terrorist activity that takes place within
the United
States where at least a part of that activity also occurs outside
the United
States. The violent conduct can be targeted against persons or
property within
the United States. The statute covers such conduct when it violates
either
Federal or state law. It sets forth a wide spectrum of bases to
assert Federal
jurisdiction. It provides for consecutive punishment in addition to
any other
Federal offense that was committed. Subsection § 2332b(e) also
gives the
Attorney General (i.e., the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI))
primary
investigative authority for all "Federal crimes of terrorism" as
that term is
defined in § 2332b(f).